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Re-imagined, General Purpose Colours
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nternational Coatings Company has introduced its newly reformulated General Purpose Colour Series (7600
Series). General Purpose Colour inks are part of its FlexCure line, curing at temperatures ranging from 275°F to 325°F (135°C to 163°C).
The General Purpose Colour Series consists of 26 vibrant, ready-for-use (RFU) ink colours. They are easy to print, creamy and offer great body. The inks contain high pigment loads for maximum print coverage. It is ideally suited for fine detail and halftone printing using finer mesh counts. General Purpose Colors offer superior performance, no build-up and reduced squeegee pressures for either high-speed wet-on-wet automatic printing or manual printing.
“General Purpose Colours (7600 Series) are highly opaque, vibrantly hued inks representing our most popular colours,” said Mark Brouillard, International Coatings’ print product manager. “With its improved print, performance and curing characteristics, the General Purpose Colour Series is International Coatings’ go-to high-performance RFU series.”
Workwear Uniform Group launches with multi-million investment programme
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wo of the leading names in technical workwear and corporate uniforms have come together in a major new Group to deliver an ambitious strategic growth plan.
Two of the leading names in technical workwear and corporate uniforms have come together in a major new Group to deliver an ambitious strategic growth plan.
Direct Corporate Clothing Plc and Incorporatewear Ltd are now trading names of Workwear Uniform Group Ltd (WWUGL). They will continue to operate as their own brands and service their respective clients, but with significant investment in physical infrastructure and new systems, will work even closer together to offer best-in-industry, top-to- toe solutions.
The new WWUGL brand portfolio also includes Workwear Uniform Group BV, which services the Group’s European customer base, global sourcing specialists GiSa and Sri Lanka-based K&D Manufacturing which provides in-house production support.
Price reduction campaign by Result
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esult has announced a comprehensive price reduction campaign.
A company statement said: “Now is the time for value, and economies of scale expansion and investment in new production at their offshore factories has enabled Result to continue reducing prices, via its distributors, across many of its styles in September.”
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Sam Sohal, WWUGL chief executive, said: “Each Group brand excels in a distinct phase of the workwear lifecycle. Bringing them together means we can offer that excellence across our customer base – delivering fully managed, cradle- to-grave contract solutions. “We believe this consolidation and sizable investment will deliver sustainable growth, the best in market service for our customers and commercial and financial security for the Group and its family of companies.” Boasting £100m annual turnover and an international reach, WWUGL is now a UK market leader in the sourcing, design, manufacture and distribution of technical workwear, PPE and bespoke corporate uniforms to large, multi-sited organisations.
A substantial, internally financed investment programme is now being delivered which includes a multi-million- pound, state-of-the-art, fully automated
warehousing and distribution product handling system which will transform the speed and quality of customer service. Group company processes are being amalgamated under a single ERP system and a further sizable investment is being made in online digital platforms. Rebecca Jones is managing director of Direct Corporate Clothing, experts in large-scale co-ordinated rollouts of high- volume orders for major organisations in key industries including construction, facilities management, rail, logistics and retail.
She said: “The new Group enables us to service and provide solutions to customers across the entire workwear lifecycle, from designing and sourcing products to their manufacture, distribution and even end-of-product-life processing.
“We’re uniquely positioned with the flexible, responsive in-house capabilities and supply chain control we now have. We have our own manufacturing facility – 80% of our garments are made by us – and we are the first in the marketplace to have a fully automated warehouse.” WWUGL brand is investing heavily in its management team and employees. To foster greater collaboration and the sharing of experience and expertise, its 150-plus UK workforce are relocating to newly refurbished headquarter offices in Oldbury, West Midlands.
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